My grandparents and dad, when he was five, came over to America from Germany in the 1920s from the Black Forest area. They founded a resort in the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina they called The Black Forest Lodge in memory of where they used to live. I have never seen a picture of the Black Forest. It actually looks a lot like my memory of the Smokies. Thanks.

A very pretty picture - brings back some fond memories. I love the picture, Black Forest always seemed sort-of enchanted. And then there was a restaurant that had the best food - small place, the building was hundreds of years old. Meals were multiple courses, took a couple of hours to eat, the game meat was out of this world. Can't remember what it was called, but it was in the middle of the forest, more or less at the top of a pass or something like that, not in any city. What I wouldn't give for another meal there...

Like so many others, I have always wanted to visit the Black Forest, but I have never been there. Some of my wife's ancestors came from that region, so it is on our list of places to see. Now I want to visit the forest and eat a meal at the wonderful restaurant that Mtngal visited those many years ago.

Hm,
since you liked the pole shot, I wonder how you feel about that one. This is what I saw when I left my hotel in the morning. (Provided I had some good clear weather, which unfortunately wasn't the case for at least half the time I spent in the Black Forest area).

Oh... and yes: one day I did a hike up to that white building on top of the mountain (ah well... let's not exaggerate... it's more a hill with like 700-something meters) you see. I was itching to do that since we arrived there